The following hypothetical legal memorandum imagines what the General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Defense would advise the Secretary of Defense immediately following
the SecDef’s remarks on March 13, 2026, in which he appeared to suggest that U.S. [...]
For four decades, the Mexico City Policy—commonly known as the Global Gag Rule—has been a political ping pong. Republican presidents impose it; Democratic presidents rescind
it. The policy blocks U.S. funding to foreign organizations that provide or promote abortion, even if those activities are funded by separate, non-U.S. [...]
Amidst the Trump administration’s unauthorized war on Iran and the resulting hostilities from Cyprus to the waters off Sri Lanka, it is easy to overlook the fact that the
administration also continues to wage unauthorized hostilities in the Western Hemisphere. [...]
Now in its second year, the Trump administration continues to set new records for legal controversy, much of which surrounds the president. Controversy has also swirled around
Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Kristi Noem, who was recently fired as Secretary of Homeland Security. [...]
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The U.S. military says four crew members were killed when a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday. [...]
Beginning on Sept. 2, 2025, the United States military has carried out a series of unprecedented strikes against vessels suspected of narcotics trafficking in the Caribbean
and eastern Pacific. The Trump administration has claimed it is in a “non-international armed conflict” with unspecified gangs and drug cartels, governed by the [...]
Since 2020, Just Security has been at the forefront of analysis on rapid shifts in AI-enabled technologies, providing expert commentary on risks, opportunities, and proposed
governance mechanisms. The catalog below organizes our collection of articles on artificial intelligence into general categories to facilitate access to relevant [...]
In an unprecedented series of attacks, Iran has targeted commercial data centers in Gulf countries in the context of the armed conflict initiated by the United States and Israel
on Feb. 28. On March 1, it used Shahed 136 drones to strike two Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), causing devastating fire, power outages, and [...]
The paradigm-shifting nature of AI has been compared to the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, electricity, and computers. But a better analogy may be synthetic
plastics: the manmade material that, for better and for worse, forms the backbone of modern life. [...]
